I would first like to re-state the parting words my mom gave me as I was about to head to Thailand, "Now remember youre in a different country so dont do anything too crazy." I love you mom but you may need a geography lesson, South Korea isnt a part of the US. Anyway with that knowledge bomb I was off to Thailand. But as somebody once said "Getting there is half the fun." I wouldnt say that we had fun but it was quite an interesting trip to Thailand. We had a pretty early flight out of Korea, and I found out from my co teacher that there is a jimjilbong in the airport. So with only one other terrible jimjilbong experience we decided to stay there the night before. I still cant understand why Koreans love it to be so hot when they sleep because it had to have been at least 80 degrees or more in the sleeping area.
Anyway we flew to Shanghai and when we arrived we easily found our terminal. On the way to our gate we noticed what could only be described as wtf. Basically there was a woman holding a bag and her young daughter was peeing in this bag. Now maybe this doesnt sound too crazy but there was a bathroom within about 50 or less feet. So obviously there is no way that the girl could have made it there in that amount of time. Although it is curious that the mom was able to pull out a bag in that time for the girl...
Anyway we ended up being delayed cuz of bad weather, no me gusta. We finally arrived in Bangkok, Thailand around 730 or 8 when we should have arrived closer to 4. We then had to go through customs at the Thai airport. There were many people waiting in line and the youngest member of our trio, Baby Stu, realized that he forgot his ipod in the airplane. So as Stu went off looking for his ipod me and John met a new friend in line. Some russian guy who had to finish a bottle of tequila before he went through customs, and being the 2 closest people we were the obvious candidates for the job. We had a pretty deep convo, it involved saying about one word or so and then taking a pull til the bottle was empty...COLLEGE!!!!
We arrived at our hostel around 9 or 10 and then headed out to try Thai food for the first time in my life. Lemme just say that I used to be extremely picky about the food that I would eat, even to the point where I wouldnt eat green popsicles when I was younger cuz i didnt like green foods, ya i was that kid. I am now a lover of Thai food, I thought I loved Korean food but Thai food is on another level...its soooooooooo good!! Also everything in Thailand is super cheap, even compared to Korea which is cheap. I think we paid about 2 dollars for that meal, we would soon find out that $2 was more than we should pay for a meal.
After the meal we headed out to Koh San Road, its basically the most touristy area in Bangkok and also it is just one long road with a bunch of souvenir shops during the day and bars at night. So ya it was pretty cool. Although it was a little bit weird because there were so many tourists. Im used to Korea where I maybe see 5 non-Koreans a day. Thailand, however, is very different in this aspect because there economy revolves around tourism. Which also means that even people with not very high level jobs can understand and speak basic English, which is great.
Anyway we had a big day ahead of us so we only got slightly wasted that night, I think...
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